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THE LABOR WORLD.

MARoR ROCHE, of Chicago, is practical
machinist
THE State of New Jersey has five factory
inspectors.
OF the thrty-eight States in the Union
fifteen have labor bureaus.
THE eight pin factories in New England
prodnce &, 120, ,O0O, 600 pins year. In England
the yearly production OF pins is set at
4,G95, ,000,OO1.
GEORGE BAER, n PittSburg mill-hand, has
invented a device for drawing the coke
ovens, which is expected to perform the work
of twenty men.
CoRLIss, the great engine builder, made
no attempt at invention until he was thirty
five years old. His first effort III this line
was machiue for sewing shoes, which was
failure.
THE total capital invested in 1877 in tho
fourteen Southern States is greater by
sg7,574,5O0, than during 1885 Alabama
shows the largest increase, with Tennessee
second.
JACKSON, Tenn, with population. OF
10000, and in the cotton belt, has subscribed
s%iS>!!5 in cash, and will donate site from
three to five acres OF land toward securing
SlU0, ,0U0 cotton mill
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
holds that Knight of Labor is a Knight no
matter what his color or previous condition
of s2rvitude and that he is entitled to all the
privileges of the order,
POWDERED glass is largely taking the place
of sand in the manufacture OF Sandpaper. IL
is readily pulverized by heating 1t red hot
and throwing it into water, the finishing be-
ing done i'll an iron mortar. i
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
met in Atlanta, Ga, recently. The delegates
were welcomed by Governor Gordon and
Mayor Cooper. Chief Arthur made an adj
dress ON the object and nature of the Order
A PAPER beer bottle is to he the next
achievement in the bottle line. Ink, paints,
OILS and certain acids have for some time
past been put in paper bottles, which do
not break or freeze SO readily as those made
of glass.
THE various "brothcrhooisH OF organized
labor-Such as the Brotherhood OF Carpenters
and Joiners, the Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators, the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and Firemen-all give reports OF
unusual prosperity i'll their ranks this year.
THE English co-operatives have bank
whose transactions amolnt to SSl,OJJ,OOJ
year. They have 400 stores and do bust
ness of $500 0JO q year. Their "l0, 0,OOo
members receive an annual profit OF Sl5,OD.-
O00. Their profits during the past twenty
four years have been S50, ,000,u0J.
A DISPATCH from Reading, Penn. says
that the Knights Of Labor have arrived at an
amicable understandin. with the Pllila lei
phia and Reading Railroad Company In re-
gard to the test for co!or-bin lness. The
knights are to be allowed the privilege OF
having representatives present when exam
nations are made and to see that they are
fairly conducted.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

WEIDMAN, the Detroit pitcher, has been re-
leased to the MetropolitanS
BRoUTHERs, of the Detroits, is the first
League player to make 100 runs.
MEMPHIS, it is said, plays with more dash
and vim than any other Southern club.
1T is thought that Brooklyn will 60 in to
some extent for young blood next season.
MORRILL,, of the Bostons, has made eleven
home runs and nine three-baserS this season.
SIX double plays, three by each club, were
the feature of recent Louisville Cleveland
game
On their last trip East the Cincinnati play
erS received s. so each every time they won
two games in any one city and the club treas
ury wasn't much depleted.
FROM the way minor leagues are going to
pieces it looks as if players will have to come
down in their salary demands next year or
there will be no small associations.
THE struggle this year for the League
championship pennant is closer than in any
previous season. The Detroits, ChicagoS, Bos-
tons and New Yorks are quite close in the
race.
WHEN Horace Phillips, on behalf of the
Pittsburgh Club in the winter of 1855, paid
somewhere about 5000 for the whole
Columbus team the price was thought to be
enormous. Now one player alone will bring
more than was paid for the whole Columbus
team.
WHILE in Chicago recently Manager Hart
of the Milwaukee Base Ball Club secured the
Chicago Club for trip to San Francisco and
other cities on the Pacific slope next winter,
where the League champions and st. Louis
Browns will play series of exhibition games
during the months of December, January,
February, and early part of March.
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GAVE HER UP.
Canada Releases the American
Schooner Perkins.

Canada Releases the AmcrlcaD
Schooner Perkins.
The American schooner J. G. H. Perkins,
seized at Souris, Prince Edwards Island, has
been Internationally released, but the Do
minion Government has. instituted proceed
ings against Captain Mcdonald for $4,000:
Captain Mcdonald will contest the suit and
bring an action himself against the govern
ment, claiming damages for illegal detention.
The schooner Perkins, of Northhaven, Me. {,
was seized at Souris, on the charge OF ship
ping men and buying provisions inside the
three mile limit The Dominion Government
has virtually thrown up the case, though IN
effort to give this serious aspect has been
made by the captain being held in S2,000.
The authorities felt they could not prove
their charges, based as they were OH the un-
reasonable statement of those who originated
them, and they resolved to free the schooner,
at the same time endeavoring to put bold
face on matters and persuade the captain that
there was really no doubt of his guilt by
holding him in heavy bail. The scheme, says
Halifax dispatch, is too transparent to hold
water, and Captain Mcdonald has expressed
his intention to institute an action for DAM
ages against the government for the scnoon-
er's illegal detention.
The Perkins was seized Just one week ago,
and the time lost by the unwarranted act
might have proved very valuable to Captain
Mcdonald, who has been heavy sufferer re-
Gently through business misfortunes. Inc
men who were, as it was alleged unlawfully
shipped by the Perkins, were discharged from
the Schooner, and have been called upon TO
give security to the authorities that they Will
not embark on similar venture in future.
Captain McDonalds plan of evadinS the
customs laws and the fishery treaty in taking
men on board outside the limit may now be
expected to be repeated oftener in the future.
A schooner shipping men in this manner, no no
matter where they come from, is perfectly
secure from molcstation. The first
hope of the authorities was that they
could prove the Perkins to have been inside
the three mile line, hut this hope was soon
dispelled. and then up went the sponge, The
early release of the schooner was 8,l confidently
anticipated by Consul General Phelan and
was mentioned in the Herald dispatches as
very probable.
1t is considered that Captain Mcdonald has
good grounds for his action for damages, and
It is not likely he is moving in that direction
without proper counsel
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

THE Boston yacht Volunteer won the
Boston Herald 81 ,O01 cup in the Marblehead
race for the Eastern Yacht Club
A FIRE at Pittsburg, Pa, destroyed two fine
n;ne-story buildings, the Dispatch newspaper
Office and other property, causing an estl-
mated loss of $50O,0OU.
THE mysterious disappearance OF Emil
Schoenberg, associated with John F. BetZ,
the millionaire brewer of Philadelphia, in
various enterprises, has been accounted for
by the latter'S assertion that the missing man
has forged his name and the names OF other
parties to the tune of about $500, 600.
THE Thistle, the Scotch cutter which is to
represent Great Britain in the coming inter-
national yacht race, arrived at New York
few days ago after voyage OF twenty-one
days.
An express train near South Norwalk,
Conn, struck a wagon containing Eben Van
Hoosear, his wife, daughter and grandson.
All four were instantly killed.
JOHN R. DUNN, New York broker, has
been arrested and lodged in Jail in default of
s1UO, 600 bail on a charge of being an accom-
plice in the robbery of $l5O,O0O from the
Manhattan Bank by its paying teller, Scott,
two years ago. Scott escaped to London, and
from there sends on full confession.
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SET FREE BY FRIENDS.
A United States Senator Sent 10
Jail for Contempt Of Court.


Jail for Contempt of Court.
United States Senator Riddleberger, sem
fenced on Friday, ut Woodstock, Va, by
Judge Newman, of the County Court to pay
q fine of $2j and be imprisoned for five days
for contempt of court, was released from Jail
the next day by a crowd. The jaier made
but slight resistance.
The circumstances leading up to the arrest
of Senator Riddleberger are related as fol-
lows by an eye witness: On Thursday w.
w. Jones was tried for larceny and the
jury found that he was insane.
Jones was a client of Senator Rid
dleberger and the verdict made the Sena-
tor angry He was accused of writing
placard and giving a boy s2 to haul Jonas up
and down the town, the latter displaying the
placard meanwhile, which had written
on it,
"verdict-Bill Jones not guilty, but insane Jury
insane lawyers insane, court insane in the m iin.'
The noise occasioned by this display dis
turbed the proceedings of the court then in
session, and the Commonwealth's Attorney,
j. C. Baker, had the Judge issue
an order for Senator Riddleberger to
cause why he should not be fined and
imprisoned for ridiculing the judge and jury
and disturbing the court. At O'Clock Sena-
tor Riddleberger appeared before the court
and defended himself. He sa d that Judge
Newman had no jurisdiction in the case, which
the Judge denied and asked Senator Riddle
berger to sit down until the evidence could
be taken to prove that he the Senator) was
the one who instigated the ridicule, and then
he said the court would hear argument.
Senator Riddleberger would not sit down
and the court fined him S25. The Senator
defed the court and said: 'This court shall
not send me to jail"
Judge Newman then told the sheriff to
take the Senator to Jail for five days.
Senator Riddleberger said he would like to
see the man who could take him to Jail.
Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the Sena-
tor and locked him up. This action caused
much excitement and Saturday morning at2
o'clock guard of 100 men, supposed to be from
Edinburg, the Senator's home, scaled the
walls of the Jail yard and took the Senator
out on ladders.
Senator Riddleberger appeared on the
streets of Woodstock Sunday evening. 1t is
probably the first time in the history of this
country that a United States Senator ever
occupied prison cell on charge of crime or
misdemeanor.
On Tuesday Senator Riddleberger was re-
leased by order of Judge Newman. Three
physicians testified that the Senator was in
poor health.
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FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.

FRANCES FEwELL, of Yorkvile, S. c..
was struck by lightning while washing, and
has permanently lost her hearing.
J. w. GARDNER, of Yorkville, S. c., was
killed while standing between two trees that
were simultaneously struck by lightning
THE wife of Harvey Fletcher, of Lowell,
Vt, was killed by lightning aS she lay in bed
beside him, while lie was in nowise injured.
TwENTY-sEvEN sheep were huddled under
a tree on the Bennett Point farm, Queen
Annes County, NIL. when lightning struck
it, and every one was killed.
NEAR Lebanon, Tenn, lightning struck
church in which services were going on. The
whole congregation felt the shock, many
being thrown to the floor, and one, Mrs.
Reese Davidson, was fatally injured.
Lightning rods were no protection to E; j:
Cables house at Washington, Conn. A bolt
ripped off the clap-boards, tore out the win,
dows and flung them on the lawn, wrenched
doors from their hinges and hurled them
across the rooms, tore off the plaster in every
room, set the sideboard on fire, bored big holes
in milk pals, shattered dishes, ruined the
water pipe, and knocked the clock and lamps
off the mantel and yet no person in the house
was in the least injured, except in feelings.
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China's Great Wall.

General J. H. Wilson reports the Great
Wall of China in fine condition where ha
examined it, though ruinons in parts. "it
is from twenty-five to thirty feet high,
fifteen to twenty feet thick. and rivetted
outside and in with cut granite masonry
laid in regular courses with an excellent
mortar Of lime and sand. 1t is sur
mounted by a parapet or battlement OF
gray burned brick eighteen or twenty
inches thick. The inside of the wall is
made of earth and loose stone, well
rammed in. Every 200 or 800 yards there
is hanking turret th;rtr.fve or forty
feet high, projecting beyond and over
looking the face of the wall in both d.,
rections, and near each turret IS stone
staircase leading down between the walls
to a door opening upon the GROUND IN
the rear. The most astonishing thing
about it is, however, that it climbs straight
up the stcepest and most rugged noun
tain sides, courses along their summltss,
dcsccnds into gorgcs and ravines, and,
rising again, skirts the face of almost IN
accessible crags, crosses rivers, valleys
and plains in endless succession from one
end of the Empire to the other-trom
the scashorc on the Cult Of Pe-Chee-Lee
TO the desert wastes of Turkestan. 1t
is almost impossible to conceive OF Its
capture except through treachcry or
gross neglect on the part of those whose
duty it should be to defend it. 1t is laid
out in total defiance Of the rules of mill
tary engineering, and yet the walls areso
solid and inaccessible, and the gates SO
well arranged and defended, that it would
puzzle modern army with first-class
siege train to get through it, If any effort
whatever were made for its defense. -
Nep York ObSerter.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN was offered 81 900
for thirty lectures and declined.
CARL ZERRAHN, the orchestral conductor
praises Southern chorus singing.
MRS. LANGTRY will appear in London
September 81 in "Antony and Cleopatra"
RUBINsTEIN is composing an opera to be
produced by the new National Russian Opera
Company at st. Petersburg.
CAPPA's Seventh Regiment Band of New
York City, will make q concert tour of the
States, beginning in October
IT is stated that the Buffalo Bill fWild
West" has never shown to less than 1S, S,0OO
persons performance in London.
SARAH BERNHARDT has been coming
money in London. Herreceipts have averaged
over g, 500 for each performance.
YEE PHAN LEE, the Celestial who welded
a New Haven heiress some weeks ago, has
become lecturer. His subject is China.
The financial failure of the National Opera
Company appears to have been complete.
The sum of $50, 900 is due to 2S0 singers and
dancers.
BUFFALO BILL intends to give a fall season
in Paris and winter season in the Coliseum
in Rome. His European engagements ex-
tend over three years.
EDoUARD AUDRAN, the composer of the
''Mascotte," is at work on fantastic opera,
"Mohammeds Paradise" which is to be first
performed at Brussels.
In composing comic operas Sir Arthur Sui
ivan often works from noon till daylight
the next morning without a break. Mr..
Gilbert usually works from II P. N. to or
SAM.
ALICE DUNNING LINGARD is coming back
to America next season to star in Sister
Mary" one of the plays which Mr.. Wallack
had some thoughts of pro lucing in New
York last season.
MISS EDITH L1TTLEHALEs, of Hamilton,
Ontario, is the phenomenal violin player OF
Canada So marked are her capabilities in
this respect that she is to be sent over to Leip-
sic for two years.
The elder Charles Dickens twenty years
ago began his reading tour of this country,
and it ended at Steinway Hall, New York
city, April 20, 1868. His son will give his
first reading in America at Chickefins Hall
on October %.
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LATER NEWS.

THE Pennsylvania Republican State con-
venton at Harrisburg nominated William Is.
Hart for State Treasurer and Henry w.
Williams for Judge of the Supreme Court.
The platform adopted denounces the present
National Administration, endorses Mr..
Blaine's candidacy for the presidential NOM
nation, and declares in favor Of protection
to home industries.
REV. DANIEL CURRY, D. D., LII. D., one
of the most prominent Methodists in Amer
lea, died few days ago at his home in New
York, aged seventynine years.
THE official returns of the Kentucky cleo
ton give Buckner for Governor 17,015 plu-
rallty over Bradley.
THE largest raft of pine logs ever towed in
the world has reached Bay City, Mich, from
Au Train. 1t contains S0,0o0, ,0N feet, and is
valued at S1,OOO,OOo.
A cLoUD-BURsT on the upper Rickaree and
Republican Rivers, in Nebraska, entirely
swept away two new bridges, and great
many cattle caught in the canyons by the
sudden rise were drowned.
AN extra force of Treasury clerks has been
dU WOIh ludhlllS, OuI CueChS 1Ol liic
ment of interest on so, 100000 of bonds.
FOUR breweries have been seized in Phila-
delphia for defrauding the Government.
s Two Boston hackmen named Bean, and a
sister, who is the wife of member of the
Springfield Fire Department, have been
notified that they are joint heirs to a fortune
of S1O, 600, 600 left by Thomas Bean, who re-
Gently died at Bonham, Texas
FOUR fatal accidents to Alpine tourists are
reported from Zurich, Switzerland, making
eighteen deaths in the Alps within month.
A CYCLONE has ravaged a great part of
the South of France. In the Department of
Aude a number of houses were destroyed and
several persons were killed
THE cholera is fast decreasing everywhere
in Southern Europe.
A FIGHT has occurred in Africa between
Tippo Tbs Arab slave traders and Basako
natives, in which l0J Arabs were killed.
UNDER the new Irish Grimes Act three per-
sons have been sentenced ut Limerick-two to
six months Imprisonment and one to four
months-for resisting the Sheriff.
STANLEY, the African explorer, is reported
in dispatch received ut the office of the
French Secretary of Foreign Affairs to have
been deserted by his escort and killed by the
natives.
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FOOD FOR THE FLAMES.
Heavy Damage Wrought BY a Fire
in Pittsburg.

Heavy Damage Wrought BY FIRE
in Pittsburg.
Great damage has been done at Pittsburg'
Penn, by the most disastrous fire known there
in years. Shortly before 10 o'clock P. M.
smoke was seen issuing from the rear
of Masonic Hall on Fifth avenue. An
alarm was quickly sounded and the fire
department responded promptly, but
before they ..arrived the rear -por-
tion of the building was burning. In a
short time the flames spread to Hamilton's
nine-story building adjoining and by II o'clock
had reached such proportions that the e en-, n,
tire fire department of the city was called
out. At11.45 Smith & Fridays building, an
other nine-story structure, caught fire and
in ten minutes more the Dispatch building
adjoining was in flames. Residents and
owners Of property for half mile around
were compelled to so on their roofs and
extinguish the sparks with buckets of water.
On Virgin alley, in the rear of the Masonic
Hall, a number of tenementrhouses were des-
troyed and twelve families rendered home
less. The damage was estim ated ut .s5oO,-
600.
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100 YEARS OLD.

MRS. TR1PHENA BEYANs, OF Danbury,
Conn, is now in the 103d year Of her age.
Mrs. JANE RYDER, of Orrington, Me-, was
103 years old in January, and is yet able to
help herself.
MRS. MAGDALENA BoGGs, of Milton, Ind,
is nearly lOi years old, in fair health, but
weak in memory.
Mrs. HULDA NELSON, of Fort Ann, Wash
ington County, was 100 years of age on July
4. She has been widow thirty-six years.
MRS. DOUGLAS, of Omaha, Neb., has just
celebrated her centennial birthday. She is
well preserved and has an excellent memory,
but her eyesight is failing.
UNCLE BILLY WHITNEY, of Norwood, N.
c., is 1l2 years old He has cut third set of
teeth. He married at thirty three, and when
his wife died she was l01 years old.
WHEN Mrs. Betty Averill, of New Preston,
Conn, celebrated her 100th birthday the
children of the town gave her set OF books;
and fifty of her family and descendants dlned
with her.
BErsEy SARGEANr, of Canterbury, n. H.,
has enjoyed 100 years of single blessedness,
and is not yet ready to marry. Her mind is
vigorous. and she still attends to her house
hold duties.
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IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Some Events of Importance in
Other Countries.
A Notable Victory for the Follow
ers of Gladstone.

An election in the Norwich division OF
Cheshire, England, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr.. R. Verdin, Liberalization
ist has resulted in another victory for the
Gladstonians. The vote STOOL Mr.. j. L.
Brumer, Gladstonian, SIP; Lord Henry
Grosvener, Liberal Unionst, 1888.
In the last election, when the Liberal
Unionist candidate was successful, the vote
was as follows: r. Verlin, Liberal Unionfst
4.416: ]. T. Drummer, Home Ruler, 9,a5S.
The result Of the election is crushing blow
to the Tories, who were confident that they
would retain the seat. At their clubs the
news was received with CONSERVATION. Home
Rule clubs and centres were correspondingly
elated.
A week ago the London Standard Tory
said that the issue would be q trial of strength
under peculiarly significant circumstances,
and pointed out that, though Mr.. Drummer
was large local employer; his opponent, who
is son Of the Duke of Westminster, was a
member Of an Old Cheshire family that had
been seated in the county for centuries and
had special claims upon the support OF every
unionist.
Mr.. Drummer, the newly elected member,
made an address to the electors of his district
In the course of his remarks he said: You
have won a victory for Mr.. Gladstone and
for Ireland. The issue between the classes
and the masses has been made absolutely
clear for the first time. The significance of
this message of peace to Ireland it is impos-
sible to overrate."
A despatch from Dublin says that the Ma
tionalists there are jubilant over the Glad
stonian victory in Cheshire. They declare
that the Government cannot proclaim the
National League in the face of defeat which
completely changes the political situation.